China gives up developing-country treatment in bid to boost WTO in face of Trump tariffs

China has said it would no longer seek the special treatment given to developing countries in World Trade Organization agreements — a change long demanded by the United States.

AI-cloning of Lara Croft’s voice has ‘Tomb Raider’ fans and actors up in arms

A lifelong fan of “Tomb Raider,” French gamer Romain Bos was on tenterhooks when an update of the popular video game went online in August. But his excitement quickly turned to anger.

A new generation of musicians is revitalizing the music scene in Cuba

Cuban teenagers Fabio and Diego Abreu seem shy at first, but the moment they step on stage, they become confident, filling a concert hall in downtown Havana with a hypnotic form of ...

A piano, a pregnant woman and a prison: Raymond Chandler’s ‘Nightmare’ is revealed

In his dreams, Raymond Chandler could conjure tales as unsettling as some of his greatest novels, as if haunted by the spirits of Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe. “Nightmare,” a brief ...

Black pastors say Charlie Kirk is not a martyr, while decrying racism and political violence

How Charlie Kirk is being memorialized — with many conservatives and white Christians, particularly evangelicals, emphasizing ...

As enrollment falls, districts mull which schools to close. The decisions have big impacts for kids

For Wednesday at 12:01 am ET Thomasina Clarke has watched school after school close in her once thriving St. Louis neighborhood, which was hit by a tornado this spring and whose ...

Asian shares mostly slip after Wall Street rally takes a pause

Asian shares mostly declined Wednesday following a drop on Wall Street, as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that stock prices were “fairly highly valued.” Japan’s ...

Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE

Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work. The General Services Administration has given the ...

AI joins list of global challenges on agenda for UN meeting

Artificial intelligence is joining the list of big and complex global challenges that world leaders and diplomats will tackle at this week’s annual high-level United Nations meetup. Since ...

Lake View Chiefs put history behind them as their sight is set on 5-0

Lake View entered this High school football season with big expectations placed on them, given the returning talent and experience. Four weeks into the ...

Maui officials sound emergency sirens and evacuate residents as wildfire threatens north shore town

Officials on the Hawaiian island of Maui went door-to-door evacuating residents from a wildfire Tuesday and sounded emergency sirens. There were no estimates on the size of the ...

$55 per hour for Tom Green County deputies? Here’s why:

During a Tom Green County Commissioners’ Court meeting on Sep. 23, the commissioners contemplated a $55 per hour pay raise ...